Tube Station
by A. S. J. Tessimond
The tube lift mounts,
sap in a stem,
And blossoms its load,
a black, untidy rose.
The fountain of the escalator
curls at the crest,
breaks and scatters
A winnow of men,
a sickle of dark spray.

A few random poems:
- Иван Барков – Венерино оружие
- The Stinging Nettle poem – A. E. Housman
- The Snowy Spring Is Raging Mad poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Corona by Paul Celan
- Moonlight On The Door by William Barnes
- Tip-Toe-ing by Mahak Raithatha S
- Николай Карамзин – Странные люди
- Омар Хайям – Да пребудет вино неразлучно с тобой
- When She Cries by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Британишский – Этот вечер
- Robert Burns: No Churchman Am I:
- Омар Хайям – Нищим дервишем ставши
- A Memory Of Youth by William Butler Yeats
- Epitaph On Johnson by William Cowper
- Владимир Степанов – Почему не спят котята?
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Hand Dark
- Granny
- Future Verdict
- Easter Decorations
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Dawn
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Candle Lord
- By The Camp Fire
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Baptistry
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- At Sea
- At Long Last
- An Old Doll
- An Anniversary
- All Saints Day 1868
- All Saints Day 1867
- After Our Likeness
- A Story At Dusk
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works